--- title: Emily Blunt and John Krasinski Disagree on How They Met description: The couple bicker over the timeline of their first date, but it's clear that the date was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. canonical: https://time.com/5483158/emily-blunt-john-krasinski-first-date/ author: Rachel E. Greenspan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-12-18T20:28:03.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:56:31.276Z og:title: Emily Blunt and John Krasinski Have Different How We Met Stories og:description: The power couple first met in 2008 og:url: https://time.com/5483158/emily-blunt-john-krasinski-first-date/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaf352a9bb682106f/698941d4457a52a502d602ad/john-krasinski-emily-blunt.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: john-krasinski-emily-blunt. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Emily Blunt and John Krasinski Have Different How We Met Stories twitter:description: The power couple first met in 2008 twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaf352a9bb682106f/698941d4457a52a502d602ad/john-krasinski-emily-blunt.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Emily Blunt and John Krasinski Have Very Different Versions of Their 'How We Met' Story by [Rachel E. Greenspan](https://time.com/author/rachel-e-greenspan/) ## Rachel E. Greenspan Dec 18, 2018 8:28 PM UTC  Emily Blunt and John Krasinski arrive to the world premiere of Disney's "Mary Poppins Returns" on November 29, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. Emily Blunt and John Krasinski arrive to the world premiere of Disney's "Mary Poppins Returns" on November 29, 2018 in Los Angeles, California.Michael Tran—FilmMagic by [Rachel E. Greenspan](https://time.com/author/rachel-e-greenspan/) ## Rachel E. Greenspan Dec 18, 2018 8:28 PM UTC Everyone remembers how Jim asked Pam out for the first time on [_The Office_.](http://time.com/5469367/the-office-brunch-reunion-photo/) But apparently [John Krasinski](http://time.com/5428469/jimmy-kimmel-brooklyn-gets-pranked/) and his real-life wife, [Emily Blunt](http://time.com/5466037/john-krasinski-emily-blunt-mary-poppins-returns/), can’t agree on how their first date came to be. The couple had a playful back and forth over the timeline of their first date in an interview with [The Hollywood _Reporter_](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/john-krasinski-emily-blunt-talk-biggest-year-1169307), but it’s clear that the date—which led to the couple’s eight year marriage—was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Krasinski met Blunt through a mutual friend in 2008 while he was having dinner with actor Justin Theroux. Blunt says it was she who initially asked the other on a date. But Krasinski begs to differ. “It was me asking for a while and you took some time, and then we finally had a date,” he explained. Once they finally had their date—regardless of how it happened—the two shared pizza at Krasinski’s apartment in West Hollywood. The [_Mary Poppins Returns_](http://time.com/5472322/lin-manuel-miranda-mary-poppins-returns/) star, who Krasinski says has never watched an episode of the American version of _The Office_, chose not to elaborate on the events of that first evening together: “It’s so precious, I don’t want to talk about it,” she said. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5483158/emily-blunt-john-krasinski-first-date/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5483158/emily-blunt-john-krasinski-first-date/"},"headline":"Emily Blunt and John Krasinski Have Very Different Versions of Their 'How We Met' Story","datePublished":"2018-12-18T20:28:03.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:56:31.276Z","description":"The couple first met in 2008","url":"https://time.com/5483158/emily-blunt-john-krasinski-first-date/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaf352a9bb682106f/698941d4457a52a502d602ad/john-krasinski-emily-blunt.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Rachel E. 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